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		olalonde on Oct 26, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Future of Markdown What I really miss in Gruber's markdown is a way to hint syntax highlighting. For example, on Github: ```javascript alert('woohoo'); ```

bergie on Oct 26, 2012 [–]

There was some discussion about allowing even more metadata than just the syntax highlighting hint for fenced code blocks in the Literate CoffeeScript thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4608165

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